Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 122 Local time: 11:51 AM
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: Obama IS John F. Kennedy.
After 7 years of some of the worst leadership the world has ever seen - I mean leadership that makes Latin American Junta's seem competant in comparison - the United States has found another John F. Kennedy.
Compare the records:
John F. Kennedy:
Born: May 29, 1917,
Controversy: Is America ready for a Roman Catholic President?
Harvard College: September 1936
1940 - graduated cum laude with a degree in international affairs
1941 1945 ; US Navy PT109 commander
1947 1953 US congressman
1953 1960 US Senator
1960 1963 President (Age: 43)
Achievements: Pulitzer Prize
Awards Military: Purple Heart; Navy and Marine Corps Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Books: Why England Slept, Profiles in Courage
Barack Obama
Born: August 4, 1961
Controversy: Is America ready for a black President?
Columbia University - Major political science with a specialization in international relations.
1983 - graduated Columbia with a B.A.
Business International Corporation
New York Public Interest Research Group
1985 - community organizer
Harvard Law School - 1988.
1991 - graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude
1993 to 2004 - Teacher; constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago Law School
1993 to 2002 - Associate attorney with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland
1993 to 2002 - served on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago
1996 2004 Illinois State Senator
2004 2008 US Senator
2008 Presidential campaign (Age: 47)
Achievements: First black president of the Harvard Law Review
Awards Military: None
Books Published: Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope.
IF you are smart, you will ELECT this gentleman to the Presidency as save your country and probably the world. _________________ I have no objection to a God who refuses to prove that he exists; but what to make of one who creates so much evidence that he doesn't?
Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 122 Local time: 11:51 AM
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:
Moloth wrote:
i'm not really sold on your reasoning here, but i DO support Obama in '08.
Your system of electing leaders is very different from ours, but I have heard complaints that Obama lacked experience and had no history in politics.
But a quick review of Kennedy's resume vs Obama's shows that both men have roughly the same background and experience. Both very well educated, both did very well at Harvard, both have accomplished something of note (pulitzer, Harvard Law Review) both have about the same political experience (13 years Kennedy, 12 years Obama) both studied international relations, both are published authors, both are "outsiders" (Kennedy Catholic, Obama Black).
The point being - Kennedy was one of your greatest Presidents. He is still loved and admired worldwide today. The complaint therefore of Obama's supposed lack of experience is invalid. If history is any judge, he is likely to become one of your most enlightened, visionary and inspiring leaders in 40 years.
I deeply regret not being able to campaign or vote for him. Do the world a favour and vote for Obama.
PLEEEEEEEZE - _________________ I have no objection to a God who refuses to prove that he exists; but what to make of one who creates so much evidence that he doesn't?
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:
Was Kennedy even that great? _________________ "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, underwhich weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, for if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The future is not set in stone. The future is what you make it. So make it a good one!"
-Dr. Emmett Brown
Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 3502 Local time: 4:51 PM Location: Houston, TX USA
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:
SmellingTheCoffee wrote:
The complaint therefore of Obama's supposed lack of experience is invalid. If history is any judge, he is likely to become one of your most enlightened, visionary and inspiring leaders in 40 years.
Well, I'm not sure lack of experience is a "good thing", look at Dubya. But, I do agree that experience isn't the only factor. I voted for Obama in the primary and will vote for him (presumably) in the fall. _________________ Please visit my site at www.caseagainstfaith.com featuring critiques of Lee Strobel and other apologetics
Check out my InfidelGuy interviews, tapes 117 and 269
_________________ "What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job." --Carl Sagan
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." --Douglas Adams
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 3003 Local time: 4:51 PM
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:
Sadly, you're wrong. If you watched "The Colbert Report" yesterday you would know the truth. Obama is not just a Muslim, he's a Nazi-Muslim (alltogether now: "ISLAMOFASCIST!". But worse yet, he's not just an Islamonazi, he has the ability to travel through time as well... Colbert even has pictures to prove what his gut already knows....
This has been validated by John Stossel so you know it's doubly true. Tripple-truth via validation by Michael Medved is pending... _________________ I think its also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
_________________ The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
-John Dewey
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Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 3022 Local time: 11:51 AM Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject:
Perhaps he is not as bad as he comes across, but I cant stand anyone that charismatic, he is more like a used car deals man, trying to make you feel good, then stay consistant on the issues. I just cant buy into anyone thats campaign seems to revolve on charisma. _________________ "I Cant Pass Up This Opportunity To Make Myself Observed, I Cant Pass Up This Opportunity To Let Myself Be Heard..." - Seether, Out Of My Way
"Hold me now I need to feel complete...Like I matter to the one I need...I'm so afraid of the gift you give me...I don't belong here and I'm not well. I'm so ashamed of the lie I'm living, i'm right on the wrong side of it all...and I so ashamed of this...yes I am so ashamed of me" Seether - The Gift
Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 3481 Local time: 8:51 AM Location: Los Angeles
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:
Obama is a nice guy. His fiscal policies are fucking absurd, but otherwise I like him.
But his wife..... *shudder* can't stand that bitch.
Let me ask you all a question. In Obama's family, who do you think make the decision to attend Rev. Wright's church?
DING DING DING! thats right. Its always the woman. In this case, Michelle Obama. Typical "chip on her shoulder" black person.
On a side note, its funny how its the women that do the most to inculcate their children with religion and force their husbands to pay lip service..... Religions that typically say women are somehow less than men. _________________ "I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to" -George Carlin
Celebrant: Forgive us, Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying.
Congregation: And bare-faced flattery.
--Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
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